1. Number of years the Market Street Cooperative in San Francisco—considered the oldest dispensary in the city—existed before President Obama took office: 11 (Source: SFBay.com).
2. Number of years the Market Street Cooperative in San Francisco survived the Obama administration before shutting down under federal pressure: 3 (Source: SFBay.com).
3. Number of cannabis growers licensed with the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department to legally grow marijuana: 91 (Source: Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department).
4. Revenue (in dollars) the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department earned in 2011 from its cannabis-grow licensing program: 600,000 (Source: SF Weekly).
5. Revenue (in dollars) the department earned in 2010 from its cannabis-grow licensing program: 60,000 (Source: SF Weekly).
6. Number of people arrested in the U.S. on marijuana charges every minute: 2 (Source: The Rutherford Institute).
7. Ratio of African-Americans incarcerated for drug offenses versus white Americans incarcerated for drug offenses: 10 to 1 (Source: American Civil Liberties Union).
8. Taxpayer bill (in millions of dollars) for 2010 activities of the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP)—California’s cannabis eradication force: 3.1 (Source: State Attorney General’s office).
9. Number of states that have asked the federal government to reclassify marijuana as a drug with medicinal benefits: 4 (Source: CNN).
10. Number of holiday-themed edibles—including medicated gingerbread houses and peppermint bark—offered in December at a Washington dispensary: 58 (Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
11. Number of states that prohibit citizens convicted of misdemeanor marijuana offenses from adopting children: 38 (Source: Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics).
12. Number of states that impose lifetime adoption bans on citizens convicted of misdemeanor marijuana offenses: 7 (Source: Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics).
13. Number of states that bar students convicted of possessing any amount of cannabis from receiving federal financial aid for a year or longer: 28 (Source: Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics).
14. Estimated number of registered medical marijuana patients in Arizona: 18,000 (Source: Phoenix New Times).
15. Estimated number of cannabis users (in millions) in Great Britain: 2 (Source: Royal College of Psychiatrics).
